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clowns

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Kawaii Star Backpack

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Your daily dose of cat memes

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Zeno really got to me

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OK, but hear me out

Say Ride the Cyclone were to be adapted into a film; imagine how much fun it would be to see it animated.

Because for the main plot, like the intro song and the mostly dialogue scenes in limbo, you could easily do a stylistic, but still grounded in realism style that a lot of modern animated projects are doing right now (think Arcane or Into the Spider Verse). But once each of the kids go into their respective songs/fantasies for what their life could have been? What if those were done in completely different styles?? Imagine the additional, visual storytelling that would tell about who they are as characters?

Like say, for Ocean's number, WTWN, everything became more simplified, and the characters (especially Ocean herself) turned into a more rounded, chibi-like style to enhance just how cutesy and likeable she's trying to portray herself throughout that number.

Or for Noel's Lament, everything goes black and white, and the characters become even more 2D stylized, and the film scales down to a smaller millimeter frame, more reminiscent of cartoons from the early 20's, when animation was just starting out, to enhance his idealization of "the olden days" (as Ocean puts it).

Mischa's song, This Song is Awesome could be animated with a more choppy frame rate, and the character designs turn a little more jagged around the edges, kind of like animated music videos (I'm thinking a Gorillaz band vibe). But as he transitions into singing about Talia, the colors start to bleed out over their lineart, and become more paint-like and Talia herself moves like a rotoscoped character (think Loving, Vincent that came out a few years ago) to enhance the sense that she's somewhere between a real person and a fantasy Mischa's built in his mind.

Ricky's song would, of course, be stylized after those sci-fi cartoons from the 90's, like X-Men or Captain Planet.

For the Ballad of Jane Doe, I would love to see something like what Wolfwalkers did back in 2020, where most of the characters (in this case, the other kids) are for the most part, animated like traditional, 2D characters with very clean lines and neat movements, whereas Jane herself stands out for having messier, sketchy line art, and looks more and more unfinished in her animation as the song goes on, because she can feel more and more of her own identity being lost.

Constance's Sugar Cloud I could see done in the classic 2D Disney style (i.e., the Renaissance era of Disney, like the Lion King or Little Mermaid days) because not only is it really smooth and colorful and just all around nice to look at, but it reminds the average moviegoer of their childhood growing up with those movies (among others, obviously), which ties in nicely with Constance's preceding monologue about remembering her own life, and the good that came with the bad.

I'm even tempted to envision the first half of the finale song in a different style, when the stage production would show a quick projection of Jane/Penny's life after she returned to the world of the living. Imagine watching this animated film, and for that segment alone, it becomes that really hyper-realistic, almost uncanny valley CGI animation style, to show that she really has joined the world of the living, i.e. our world, among us, the living breathing movie goers watching this, and watching the other kids still in limbo fade back to that main art style for the final number.

I don't know; it just feels like something that would be so engaging to see from an already compelling storyline and characters. Especially with more experimental animation projects on the rise right now

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Watched a new show today

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MY BOOK CAME IN

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No way I just saw someone saying Duck "ruined Yellow and Red's future" by saying they weren't supposed to be there on the jobs episode and pulling them out of that simulation

GIRL THAT WAS AN ILLUSION SIMULATION WHATEVER. IT WASN'T REAL. THEY WEREN'T HAVING A NICE FUTURE

See this is why I hate the jobs episode, the interpretations of the fandom suck all kinds of ass.

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quick little Collector thought b/c that last rb reminded me of it from the new episode last night: a big theme of the show is about breaking free of expectations, being able to be yourself, etc., and the Collector so far is really shaping up to fit that thematically as well.

We don't know if they're the last of their kind like King is, but at the least, it's been centuries - if not millennia - since they've interacted with another Collector. And they *clearly* aren't down for the family business, so to speak...

...to the point where they seem to feel guilt for what their ancestors did to the Titans.

They also seem to be MUCH younger than the other Collectors, going by the paintings in the Archive House? I can certainly imagine both a sense of pressure to live up to their elders' expectations as well as a degree of isolation re: lack of others their age.

So aside from their inherent abandonment issues from being trapped in the In-Between Realm, the lack of positive influences in their life (geez, imagine Philly Cheese Steak being your only company for centuries), that they're literally just a kid, etc., they're also clearly trying to break free of that legacy (even if they don't quite yet understand the difference between reality and pretend, we'll get there!).

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I know I'm late but I've been busy these last few weeks

But i needed to make a blog about inside job and dead end because like I was a fan of both these shows since they came out and I'm so upset Netflix cancelled them both

Adult animation deserves better then this :(

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If not me, someone else would have done it

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TOH SPOILERS!

Omg for the future was insane

-Stringbean is so adorable

-all Luz wanted was to be understood by the people around her

-Hunter has flapjacks magic

-The blights reunion was adorable

-Willow is trying to control her powers through not being stressed :(

-Eda,Hooty,Lilith and king staying together is so adorable

-The collector just wants a best friend to play with :(

-Boscha and Kikimora are shit

-The animation was incredible

-Huntlow and more Lumity!

Literally in love with the new episode,watched it twice already excited for the final!

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Some of my art from this year <3

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Wakey Wakey to the new day

And today is my birthday!

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I drew the silly ginger

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See you in the New Year.

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Inside Job spoilers!

I watched the S2 final yesterday and I have a lot to say

-I believe Reagan tried to get a love life while being able to still stay at her job which is kinda what Rand tried to do,Reagan is turning into her dad

-Reagan truly loved Ron,that hurt her sm to let go but the right choice :(

-Brett isn't like a normal boss,he has a huge heart and will do anything to make things right like not killing the dog which was so wholesome

-I wonder what's going to happen to Reagen as she's going to become the new J.R and something bad is coming her way...

-I'M SO GLAD J R AND RAND FINALLY GOT IN JAIL AWAY FROM MESSING ANYTHING UP

-The Lin and Friends references is too funny 😂

-MIC THOUGHT HE WAS PREGNET AYOOOO

-Brett saying he understands that Reagan isn't doing well at the job and let's her go to see Ron

-CLIFFHANGER FOR S3!?

Actually sobbing

-Chance for Brett x Reagan to get Canon 🤭